Our species is the last living member of the human family tree. But just 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals walked the Earth, and hundreds of thousands of years before then, our ancestors overlapped with ...

Braided streams and rivers are relatively rare in the Rocky Mountains of the Western U.S., except in the Yellowstone region of northwest Wyoming. This raises the question: why do we find these ...

Upon completion of this unit students should be able to: Describe longitudinal and lateral profiles (shapes) of an alluvial fan. Discuss the difference between a debris flow and a stream-dominated ...

Upon completion of this unit students should be able to: Describe longitudinal and lateral profiles (shapes) of an alluvial fan. Discuss the difference between a debris flow and a stream-dominated ...

A jet of fluid flowing down a partially wetting, inclined plane usually meanders but — by maintaining a constant flow rate — meandering can be suppressed, leading to the emergence of a beautiful ...